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Aum Shinkyria
<view this essay>.... blind boy born into a very poor family in China. Throughout his entire life he had one solitary goal - to become a leader of some sort. This started from an early age, when he would run for class and school president every year in elementary, middle, and secondary school. Being the unusual boy he was, he would constantly be declined presidency, as the other children feared his political standpoint and his threats.
According to Marty Butz, a writer for a prominent occult magazine, “…perhaps still ambitious for leadership, Asahara realized his own divine appointment and religious calling.” While performing his normal religious routine, As .....
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Biography Of Ogden Nash
<view this essay>.... American Poets stated that Nash then took a job in the
editorial and publicity department at the Doubleday and Doran Publishing Company.
He worked very hard at this position, moving up the "executive" ladder very
quickly. In only 5 years of work, he became a well-known editor around the
publishing business. Nash then realized that his name was known all over the
publishing companies; and he started to compose works of free verse.
Mindscape Complete Reference Library CD stated that 1931 was the
greatest year of Nash's life. In June, he married Frances Rider Leonard of
Baltimore, Maryland. Also in 1931, he published two books of free verse:
"Hard Lines" .....
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Isaac Asimov
<view this essay>.... Asimovs had to endure a horrible boat ride with horrible food, seasickness, and the anxiety of what the future had in store for them. They made their home in Brooklyn, New York where they opened a candy store (Erlanger 9). When he was nine years of age, after school he worked in his parent's candy store. It was then that began reading science fiction magazines. He had to struggle to read these magazines because his father would not permit him to read "such junk"(Erlanger 9). " Isaac you should be reading books with more value," his father told him (wilson). Sooner or later his father gave in and told him not to forget his library books (Erlanger .....
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Andrew Jackson
<view this essay>.... Indian removal and banking policies; these controversies brought forth strong rivalry over his years of president. He was known for his iron will and fiery personality, and strong use of the powers of his office that made his years of presidency to be known as the "Age of Jackson." was born on March 15, 1767, in a settlement on the border of North and South Carolina. He was orphaned at age 14. After studying law and becoming a member of the Bar in North Carolina later he moved to Nashville Tennessee. Their he became a member of a powerful political faction led by William Blount. He was married in 1791 to Rachel Donelson Robards, and later remarried to him du .....
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Saint Francis Of Assissi
<view this essay>.... Bernardone, was a prosperous cloth merchant and one of the
influential business men of Assisi. A merchant in those days was a far
different individual from the modern shop keeper; forced by circumstances to be
both daring and prudent, he constantly embarked upon the most hazardous
undertakings and his career was likely to be a succession of ups and downs.
Moreover, business activities, which today tend more and more to assert their
independence of any ethical code, were then strictly subordinated to accepted
moral standards, as is clearly shown in the writings of Leo Battista Alberti, a
century and a half later, or in the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas. .....
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Michelangelo
<view this essay>.... who David, the Old Testament hero who defeated
Goliath, actually was.
David is shown by Michelangelo as a lithe nude youth, muscular and
alert, looking off into the distance as if sizing up the enemy Goliath. The
fiery intensity of David’s facial expression is termed terribilità, a feature
characteristic of many of Michelangelo’s figures and of his own personality.
David, Michelangelo’s most famous sculpture, became the symbol of
Florence and originally was place in the Piazza della Signoria in front of the
Palazzo Vecchio, the Florentine town hall.
With this statue, Michelangelo proved to his contemporaries that he
not only sur .....
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William Richardson Davie
<view this essay>.... helped raise a troop of cavalry near Salisbury and eventually achieved the rank of colonel. While attached to Pulaski's division, Davie was wounded leading a charge at Stono, near Charleston, on June 20, 1779. Early in 1780 he raised another troop and operated mainly in western North Carolina. In January 1781 Davie was appointed commissary-general for the Carolina campaign. In this capacity he oversaw the collection of arms and supplies to Gen. Nathanael Greene's army and the state militia.
After the war, Davie embarked on his career as a lawyer, traveling the circuit in North Carolina. In 1782 he married Sarah Jones, the daughter of his former commander, Gen. .....
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The Beliefs Of Martin Luther King Jr.
<view this essay>.... to transracial leadership in our society.
Through studying the life and example of Martin Luther King, Jr., we learn that his moral values of integrity, love, truth, fairness, caring, non-violence, achievement and peace were what motivated him. King is not great because he is well known, he is great because he served as the cause of peace and justice for all humans. King is remembered for his humanity, leadership and his love of his fellow man regardless of skin color. This presence of strong moral values developed King’s character which enabled him to become one of the most influential leaders of our time.
Integrity is a central value in a leader’s char .....
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